Art Crime

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Forgers: Fakes and Forgeries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-7

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   2. The Beltracchi Affair: A Comment and Further Reflections on the “Most Spectacular” German Art Forgery Case in Recent Times

      • Saskia Hufnagel, Duncan Chappell

      Pages 9-20

   3. On “In Praise of Forgery”

      • Blake Gopnik

      Pages 21-26

   4. Connoisseurship All the Way Down: Art Authentication, Forgery, Fingerprint Identification, Expert Knowledge

      • Simon A. Cole

      Pages 27-32

   5. The Police Investigation of Art Fraud

      • Vernon Rapley

      Pages 33-40

   6. The Grape War of China: Wine Fraud and How Science Is Fighting Back

      • Toby Bull

      Pages 41-56

   7. Fingerprinting Objects for the Control of Illegal Trafficking

      • William Wei

      Pages 57-76

3. Terrorists: Policing, Investigation and Terrorism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-85

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   2. The Theft, Recovery and Forensic Investigation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of the Yarnwinder

      • Martin Kemp

      Pages 87-94

   3. Trying to Recover Two Francesco Guardi Capricci Stolen from Russborough, County Wicklow, in 1986

      • Charles Hill

      Pages 95-104

   4. The Role of the Police in the Co-Production of Art Security in London

      • John Kerr

      Pages 105-117

   5. Thieves of Baghdad: And the Terrorists They Finance

      • Colonel Matthew Bogdanos

      Pages 118-131

   6. Looting of Antiquities: Tearing the Fabric of Civil Society

      • Laurie W. Rush

      Pages 132-142

   7. The Return of Iconoclasm: Barbarian Ideology and Destruction by ISIS as a Challenge for Modern Culture, Not Only for Islam

      • Francesco Rutelli

      Pages 143-149

4. Tomb Raiders: Archaeology and Antiquities Looting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-157

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   2. Looting and Passion of Greek Vases from Etruria and Magna Graecia: The Birth of the Great Collections

      • Stefano Alessandrini

      Pages 159-168

   3. Aramaic Incantation Bowls in War and in Peace

      • Neil Brodie

      Pages 169-178

   4. Temple Looting in Cambodia: Anatomy of a Statue Trafficking Network

      • Simon Mackenzie, Tess Davis

      Pages 179-199

   5. Something Is Confidential in the State of Christie’s

      • Christos Tsirogiannis

      Pages 200-228

Since the Second World War, art crime has shifted from a relatively innocuous, often ideological crime, into a major international problem, considered by some to be the third-highest grossing criminal trade worldwide. This rich volume features essays on art crime by the most respected and knowledgeable experts in this interdisciplinary subject.

• Art crime
• art theft
• art and terrorism
• antiquities looting
• stolen art
• art policy
• art law
• art and war
• Nazi art
• counter-terrorism
• art investigation
• museum security
• museum studies
• illicit traffic
• trafficking art
• archaeological looting
• tomb raider
• criminology
• crime
• Museum
• Nation
• police
• service

'This remarkable anthology appears just when it is most needed, showing, from a broad variety of perspectives, that criminal acts against works of art and architecture looting, vandalism, iconoclasm, illicit trade exert profound effects on individual human beings and on civil society. A riveting rogues' gallery: passive-aggressive art forgers, brutal religious iconoclasts, Napoleon, and the swindlers who bottle sugar water as wine in China, matches wits against a colorful gathering of heroes, from police officers to art historians to the former Mayor of Rome. A fascinating, appalling, and timely discussion.' - Ingrid D. Rowland, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, USA

'This riveting book provides the inside-story on a range of art crimes, from the relationship between looted antiquities and terrorism to the most recent developments concerning Nazi looted art to wine fraud in China, among other "toxic" objects. The contributors hail from diverse backgrounds, but are united in their painstaking research and their search for reform-minded responses to the myriad challenges concerning cultural heritage. This book is essential for scholars, collectors, and anyone who cares about cultural property.' - Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College, USA

• Association for Research into Crimes against Art, Italy

  Noah Charney

George H.O. Abungu, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, Kenya.  Stefano Alessandrini, Specialist Consultant to the Ministero per i Beni Culturali and the Advocate General Maurizio Fiorilli, Italy.  Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, New York County District Attorney's Office, USA. Toby J.A. Bull, Hong Kong Police Force, Hong Kong SAR Neil Brodie, University of Glasgow, UK. Duncan Chappell, Australian Institute of Criminology Noah Charney, Association for Research into Crimes against Art Simon A. Cole, Newkirk Center for Science and Society, USA. Tess Davis, University of Glasgow, UK. Asif Efrat, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel Paolo Girogio Ferri, Former Italian State Prosecutor David Gill, University Campus Suffolk, UK. Blake Gopnik, Art Critic Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Harvard University, USA. Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield Jerome Hasler, Art Recovery Group International Charles Hill, Formerly London. Metropolitan Police, UK. Saskia Hufnagel, Queen Mary University London, UK. Martin Kemp, University of Oxford, UK. John Kerr, University of Roehampton, UK. Thierry Lenain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Simon Mackenzie, University of Glasgow, UK. Christopher A. Marinello, Art Recovery Group International Erik Nemeth, Independent Scholar Vernon Rapley, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK. Lawrence Rothfield, University of Chicago, USA. Laurie W. Rush, US. Army Francesco Rutelli, Associazione Priorita' Cultura, Italy. Howard Spiegler, Herrick, Feinstein's International Art Law Group Arthur Tompkins, District Court Judge, New Zealand. Christos Tsirogiannis, University of Glasgow, UK. Bill Wei, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.

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